A tale of two densities: active inference is enactive inference.
Adaptive Behavior August 1, 2020 Maxwell Jd Ramstead, Michael D Kirchhoff, Karl Friston 387 citations
The aim of this article is to clarify how best to interpret some of the central constructs that underwrite the free-energy principle (FEP) - and its corollary, active inference - in theoretical neuroscience and biology: namely, the role that generative models and variational densities play in this theory. We argue that these constructs have been systematically misrepresented in the literature,...